When you have a new baby, you can get really overwhelmed, since it's such a huge responsibility. You're thrilled to be a mom, but your sleep schedule is so thrown off and it can be scary if you don't have a good support system.

I can't stop staring at my beautiful new baby.

The worst feature of a new baby is its mother's singing.

The new father finally hangs up the phone, laughing at absolutely nothing. "Congratulations," I say, when what I really want to tell him is to pick up that baby of his and hold her tight, to set the moon on the edge of her crib and to hang her name up in stars so that she never, ever does to him what I have done to my parents.

Each record is sort of like a brand new baby, where it's your favorite thing at that moment in time.

Pregnancy is something that I always love. It's about hope and the future and a new baby.